To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca. But when he and a few other boys become trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking, Mateus will be forced to decide between working for the very man who imprisoned him or risk his and his family’s future.
Winner of the Sorriso Diverso Venezia prize and special mention by the Fai Persona Lavoro Ambiente Foundation for a foreign film in the Horizons Extra section at the Venice International Film Festival. It was also presented at the Toronto Film Festival.
7 Prisioneiros
2021
18 years
93 min.
Fiction
Brazil
Brazil, crime, family, international festivals, awarded films, youth, social pressure, social portrait, underworld
Colorido
Alexandre Moratto
Thayná Mantesso, Alexandre Moratto
João Gabriel de Queiroz
Germano de Oliveira
Christian Malheiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Bruno Rocha, Vitor Julian, Lucas Oranmian, Cecília Homem de Mello
Ramin Bahrani, Fernando Meirelles, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Bel Berlinck, Alexandre Moratto
Noruz Films, O2 Filmes
Filipe Puperi, Rita Zart, Tiago Abrahão
Netflix
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